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The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.

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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
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If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.
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For a man who loves power, competition from the gods is annoying. I have done away with that. I have proven to these illusory godsthat a man, if he has the will, can practice, without any apprenticeship, their ridiculous trade.
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Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss
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All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.
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There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.
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Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
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There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.
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Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place.
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You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
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I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.
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Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.
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Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.
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The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
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The future is the only transcendental value for men without God.
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I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me.
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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
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Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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